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Bernard Hoekman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the bali trade facilitation agreement and rulemaking in the wto milestone mistake or mirage
    Research Papers in Economics, 2014
    Co-Authors: Bernard Hoekman
    Abstract:

    The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries that was “harvested” from the broader Doha round. This paper analyzes the outcome of the trade facilitation talks, assesses the role of the Epistemic Community that provided information to negotiators and reflects on the lessons and possible implications of the TFA experience for the prospects for new rule-making and cooperation on regulatory matters in the WTO. The TFA illustrates both the potential and the difficulty of negotiating generally applicable stand-alone agreements in the WTO and demonstrates the importance of issue linkage in achieving cooperation in trade policy matters.

  • the bali trade facilitation agreement and rulemaking in the wto milestone mistake or mirage
    Social Science Research Network, 2014
    Co-Authors: Bernard Hoekman
    Abstract:

    The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries that was “harvested” from the broader Doha round. This paper analyzes the outcome of the trade facilitation talks, assesses the role of the Epistemic Community that provided information to negotiators and reflects on the lessons and possible implications of the TFA experience for the prospects for new rule-making and cooperation on regulatory matters in the WTO. The TFA illustrates both the potential and the difficulty of negotiating generally applicable stand-alone agreements in the WTO and demonstrates the importance of issue linkage in achieving cooperation in trade policy matters.

Lani G. Crane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Generating global political priority for urban health: The role of the urban health Epistemic Community
    Health Policy and Planning, 2017
    Co-Authors: Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Lani G. Crane
    Abstract:

    Over the past decade there has been much discussion of the challenges posed by rapid urbanization in the developing world; yet the health of the urban poor, and especially those residing in low- and middle-income countries, continues to receive little political priority in most developing countries and at the global level. This research applies social science scholarship and a public policy analytical framework to assess the factors that have challenged efforts to make health in urban poor settings a priority. We conducted 19 semi-structured phone interviews with key urban health proponents and experts representing agencies that shape opinions and manage resources in global health. We also conducted a literature review, which included published scholarly literature and reports from organizations involved in urban health provision and advocacy. Utilizing a process-tracing method, we triangulated among these sources of data to create a historical narrative and analyse the factors that shape the global level of attention to and resources for urban health. The urban health agenda continues to be challenged by six factors, three of which concern the political context or characteristics of the issue: long-standing competition with the dominant development agenda that is rural health oriented; limited data and measurement tools that can effectively gauge the extent of the problem; and lack of evidence on how to best to address the issue. The other three factors are directly under the control of the urban health Community: the Community's ineffective governance; little common understanding among its members of the problem and how to address it; and an unconvincing framing of the issue to the public. The study offers suggestions as to what advocates can do to secure greater attention and resources in order to help address the health needs of the urban poor.

Yusra Ribhi Shawar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Generating global political priority for urban health: The role of the urban health Epistemic Community
    Health Policy and Planning, 2017
    Co-Authors: Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Lani G. Crane
    Abstract:

    Over the past decade there has been much discussion of the challenges posed by rapid urbanization in the developing world; yet the health of the urban poor, and especially those residing in low- and middle-income countries, continues to receive little political priority in most developing countries and at the global level. This research applies social science scholarship and a public policy analytical framework to assess the factors that have challenged efforts to make health in urban poor settings a priority. We conducted 19 semi-structured phone interviews with key urban health proponents and experts representing agencies that shape opinions and manage resources in global health. We also conducted a literature review, which included published scholarly literature and reports from organizations involved in urban health provision and advocacy. Utilizing a process-tracing method, we triangulated among these sources of data to create a historical narrative and analyse the factors that shape the global level of attention to and resources for urban health. The urban health agenda continues to be challenged by six factors, three of which concern the political context or characteristics of the issue: long-standing competition with the dominant development agenda that is rural health oriented; limited data and measurement tools that can effectively gauge the extent of the problem; and lack of evidence on how to best to address the issue. The other three factors are directly under the control of the urban health Community: the Community's ineffective governance; little common understanding among its members of the problem and how to address it; and an unconvincing framing of the issue to the public. The study offers suggestions as to what advocates can do to secure greater attention and resources in order to help address the health needs of the urban poor.

Anne Lise Kjaer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • what if the emerging Epistemic Community of international criminal law
    European journal of legal studies, 2019
    Co-Authors: Jakob V H Holtermann, Anne Lise Kjaer
    Abstract:

    Special issue published online 31st January 2019 in cooperation with the Network of Empirical Legal Scholars

  • what if the emerging Epistemic Community of international criminal justice
    Social Science Research Network, 2018
    Co-Authors: Jakob V H Holtermann, Anne Lise Kjaer
    Abstract:

    Using international criminal law as a case study, this article aims to demonstrate how computer driven corpus linguistics combined with philosophy of law and sociology of science can help improve our understanding of legal knowledge and science. The article is built on a computer driven corpus linguistic study of all judgments from the ICTY and the ICTR from 1996-2017. To our surprise, this study revealed that the frequency of the use of ifs in all judgements had exhibited an almost perfectly steady annual decline – from 93 per 100,000 words on average in 1996 to 34 in 2017. As a linguistic phenomenon, this cuts against how we would expect language to behave. In the search for an explanation, we move from linguistics into the philosophical and sociological study of (legal) knowledge and science. In the most general terms, the explanation ties the disappearing of ifs to the emergence of international criminal law as a distinct specialized legal science, a separate sub-discipline constituted by a professionally shared corpus of knowledge – or of “a substantial body of jurisprudence on genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, as well as forms of individual and superior responsibility”, as the ICTR put it when closing down.

Joanne Mcevoy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • how Epistemic communities drive international regimes the case of minority rights in europe
    Journal of European Integration, 2013
    Co-Authors: David J Galbreath, Joanne Mcevoy
    Abstract:

    Enjoying control over knowledge production, Epistemic communities are central to international politics in guiding decision-maker learning. Yet, we do not understand fully the extent of Epistemic Community influence on diverse issue areas and the ways in which they drive international regimes. To illustrate an Epistemic Community's impact, we investigate the role of experts in the EU, the OSCE and the Council of Europe within the European minority rights regime. Conceptually, we argue that a hierarchy among experts matters for the Epistemic Community's influence via policy innovation, diffusion and persistence. Empirically, we track the operation of these mechanisms in the context of EU enlargement as experts on minority rights influence standard-setting, monitoring and standard expansion.